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J. G. COVERT.

HALTER.

Patented Mar. 13, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT JAMES C. COVERT, OF WEST TROY, NEW YORK.

HALTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,369, dated March13, 1888. Application tiled January 18, 1888. Serial No. 261,095. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern: 7 Be it known that I, J AMES 0. COVERT, acitizen of the United States, residing at IVest- Troy, in the county ofAlbany and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Halters, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in rope halters; and it consistsof certain improvements upon the halter on which Letters Patent issuedDecember 15, 1885, to Ernest R. Michaelis, No. 332,271, whereby arequirement of certain branches of the trade or of certain users may becomplied with, this requirement having reference to using this specificstyle of halter interchangeably as a halter and as a bridle.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, andon which like reference letters indicate corresponding featurcs, Figure1 represents a perspective view of a halter of the character abovealluded to with my improvement embodied therein and a bit attachedthereto; Fig. 2, a similar view with the bit removed, and Fig. 3 adetail view of one of the bit cheek-plates.

The letter A designates the headstall or halter, the same consisting ofa single piece of rope usually arranged substantially as shown, andsecured at one end to the bit cheekplate B, composed of a casting havingtwo holes for the passage of that part of the rope which constitutes oneside of the nose and chin pieces, and a hole or eye, 0, at the loweredge for the connection ofa bit, as by means ofsnap-hooks. By preferencethe stall is seen red to the plate by being clamped in the tubularportion D therefor; but this form of connection may be departed from.AtEis another cheek-plate consisting of a casting having three holestherein, besides the hole or eye F, to which the bit is secured. This isthe preferred form of plate, but its number of holes may be varied, andtheir shape need not necessarily be round.

The letter G designates a bit, of usual or any approved type, to whichare engaged two snaphooks, H, which, being double, also engage with theeyes (land F.

Thus it will be seen that a purchaser of this halter, having a bit, mayconvert his halter into a cheap bridle in a few minutes and with butsmall cost; or a halter may be sold with a bit and then used with orwithout it. Of course the adjustment of the bridle needs to be moreexact as to the size of the animals head to prevent the bit fromdislodgment from the mouth than is necessary with a halter, as such; butthe arrangement of the holes in the cheek-plates admits of this requiredadjustment, both as to length of the head-piece and as to thecircumference of the nose and chin pieces.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a halter, the combination of two metallic cheekplates, to one ofwhich one end of the halterrope is secured, and in which there arerespectively two and three rope-holes in which the halter-rope isarranged, substantially as shown, and in each of which there is an eyefor, the attachment and detachment of a bit.

2. In a halter, a cheek-plate having an up per tubular'portion to clampthe halter-rope, and three holes below said portion, two of which areinabout the same longitudinal plane to receive the nose and chin pieces,and the third of which is between them and below the position of saidnose and chin pieces, so as to readily receive a snap-hook for theattachment of a'bit.

3. In ahalter, a cheek-plate having one upper hole to receive theclreelnpiece, two other holes to receive the nose and chin pieces, and afurther hole or eye between them and below the said hole for the noseand chin pieces, to receive a snap-hookfor the attachment of a bit.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES C. COVERT.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR B. STEWART, FRED W. Oovnn'r.

